Indian police registered a case against Citigroup executive has indian police have arrested a senior executive of the country's biggest motorcycle maker in connection with a multimillion-dollar fraud involving a local citigroup bank branch , they said on monday.sanjay gupta , associate vice president of hero corporate services , was held on charges of criminal conspiracy in gurgaon , a booming satellite town near new delhi , local police chief surgeet singh deshwal told reporters.gupta's arrest came less than a week after an executive at gurgfon's citibank branch , shivraj puri , was arrested on charges of defrauding wealthy customers . related articles 8 >>

India Starts Looking Beyond Iran for Oil india's petroleum and finance ministry are working out an alternate settlement mechanism for iranian crude imports , after the reserve bank of india (rbi) said indian companies cannot use the asian clearing union (acu) to settle dues with iran any more , reported the indo-asian news service thursday t indian petroleum secretary s t sundareshan was quoted as saying that officials of rbi and the iranian central bank would meet in mumbai friday to discuss alternate mechanism payments , which could be .. . related articles 11 >>

Australia waste early hard work in final Ashes Test usman khawaja gave a glimpse into the future as australia wasted a solid start on the rain-marred opening day of the final ashes test against england at the sydney cricket ground on monday . related articles 25 >>

'Baker Street' showinger Gerry Rafferty dead at 63 a former french model who caused a scottir with a 2007 ad campaign in which she was photographed nude with anorexia , died last month at the age of 28 , the 20 minutes.ch website reported wednesday . related articles 8 >>

Ferguson upbeat as Manchester United extend lead manchester united went three points clear at the top of the english premier league table after a 2-1 win over stoke on tuesday.meanwhile , fulham climbed out of the relegation zone with a 3-0 win at home to west bromwich albion while birmingham also exited the bottom three following a 2-1 victory away to blackpofl.javier hernandez , who scored united's winner in a 2-1 win away to west brom last time out , broke the deadlock in the 27th minute at old trafford with a stylish flick behind his legs from nani's cross . related articles 8 >>

Australian Flood Victims Warned of Snakes, Crocodiles the australian military monday rached to bracing food and supplies to the flood-hit northern city of rockhampton before it is cut off by rising flood waters , as the disaster claimed its third fatality . related articles 25 >>

Man Declared Innocent after 30 Years Behind Bars prosecutors declared a texas man innocent monday of a rape and robbery that put him in prison for 30 years , more than any other dna exoneree in texaf.dna test results that came back barely a week after cornelius dupree jr t was.. . related articles 9 >>

December Sales Rise for GM, Ford, Chrysler us auto giant general motors said tuesday that its sales in china , the world's largest car market , increased 28.8 percent year-on-year in 2010 to a new annual record of 2.35 million vehicles . related articles 8 >>

At least 3 killed in suicide car bombing in Iraq's Diyala six people were wounded in bomb and gunfire attacks targeting the iraqi police in baghdad on saturday , an interior ministry source said t a roadside bomb struck a police patrol in baghdad's northern district of kadhmiyah , wounding three civilians and a policeman , the source told xinhua on condition of anonymity t in a separate incident , gunmen opened fire on a police checkpoint outside a court building in baghdad's southwestern district of bayaa , wounding two policemen , the source said t v .. . related articles 9 >>

Australian military flies in flood relief supplies rockhamptone , australia (reuters) - floodwaters eased in australia's major coal mining region on tuesday , allowing some mines to slowly resume production although most remained idle , as devastating floods affect some 200,000 people and force towns to be evacuated . related articles 8 >>

Iran to Open Nuclear Sites to Diplomats , But No America joins Invited bric is set to become brics t the economic bloc comprising brazil , russia , india and china has welcomed its newest member -- south africa t the four bric countries have reached consensus to absorb south africa as an official member of its bloc t south africa says joining the bric cooperation scheme is the best christmas gift the country could get t as the biggest economy in southern africa , south africa expressed its desire to join bric in february this year t president jacob zuma .. . related articles 8 >>

Merkel: Germany Needs Europe in a year-end address , german chancellor angela merkel will stressed the importance of the euro to germany despite recent problems , calling the common currency the basis of european prosperity . related articles 8 >>

British consulate employees charged over Hamas plot two staff members of the british consulate-general in jerusalem arrested in connection with an alleged planning to fire a rocket into a jerusalem stadium have been charged with acquiring and trading weaponry and other weapons-related offenses , the israeli security agency said . related articles 9 >>